{"id":170908,"date":"2017-08-21T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T19:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=170908"},"modified":"2017-08-21T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T00:54:07","slug":"scandals-uk-abortion-chain-wasting-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/scandals-uk-abortion-chain-wasting-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandals abound at UK abortion chain: ‘When I told them I didn\u2019t want the abortion, they accused me of wasting their time’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last year, United Kingdom abortion<\/a> provider Marie Stopes was racked with scandal. The Care Quality Commission made several routine, unannounced inspections of their facilities, and the reports were shocking<\/a>. What inspectors found was so bad, Marie Stopes was temporarily forbidden from performing abortions… and now, people are calling for the abortion chain to be stripped of its license to perform abortions permanently.<\/p>\n

Marie Stopes facilities were found to have untrained staff<\/a>, unable to safely administer anesthesia or sedation safely. It was also discovered that vulnerable women were being coerced into abortions<\/a>, including at least one woman with learning disabilities who did not understand what was happening. Inspectors watched as she became more and more “visibly distressed” as staffers tried to force her to have an abortion, and eventually stepped in to put a stop to the coercion. Staffers were also caught “bulk signing” consent forms, without meeting patients or learning their circumstances. The purpose of these forms is to ensure that women are not being pressured or forced into having abortions, but the Marie Stopes staffers evidently did not care. It was also found that staffers would approve abortions based solely on telephone conversations, but would list different reasons for the abortions<\/a> than the reasons given to them over the phone.<\/p>\n

There were also issues with patient safety, as surgical instruments were not being properly sanitized. At a facility in Norwich, \u201cmultiple surgical termination products were left in a single open hazardous waste bin in a sluice room next to theatres for the whole day.\u201d Bodies of aborted babies were also thrown into an open trash can, which was not emptied between patients. Several facilities were also found to have issues with infection control and with following surgery checklists. There had also been hundreds of botched abortions<\/a> in just two short months, with multiple women having to visit hospital emergency rooms. While these sorts of injuries are not widely publicized, abortion carries with it a host of risks for women. Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino explains some of these risks in the video below, explaining a common 2nd trimester abortion procedure, the D&E:<\/p>\n